 My name is Carol Strelev. I was born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. I lived on the farm nearby and went to one-room school. The children around were all just like us. We had very little and we were able to go to school till grade eight, then we had to take correspondence and then the last year I managed to go to school in town, which was not a very satisfactory thing, but I did it and after school I went to work for the Saskatchewan government telephones and I was with them two years and a girlfriend persuaded me to come to Vancouver and I worked for the Bank of Montreal for about a year and I saw this ad once in the paper about wanting recruits for the rents, so I didn't know anything about the military because we had did not have anybody in the family that had served in the military and so I got myself down to HMCS Discovery, which was a sort of a challenge in those days as I recall and signed up and I did not know what I was doing, but anyway, I signed on the dotted line and I was in.